Wed, Oct 15: Nicola Camerlenghi (Dartmouth College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14E-304, Cambridge, MA 02139
"The Medieval Origins of the Cupola of Florence Cathedral"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
Wed, Oct 15: Seth Schein (University of California, Davis)
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
*BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George St., Providence, RI 02912
"A Cognitive Approach to Greek Meter: Hermann's Bridge in the Homeric Hexameter and the Interpretation of Iliad 24.1-63"
Wed, Oct 15: Ryan Balot (University of Toronto)
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Richards Auditorium, Murkland Hall, Main Street, Durham, NH 03824
"The Psychology of Greed: Ancient and Modern Reflections"
Sponsored by the John C. Rouman Lecture Series, the Responsible Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project, and the Department of Classics, Humanities and Italian Studies. A short reception will follow.
Thu, Oct 16: Jessica Dello Russo (Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, Rome)
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, Andover-Harvard Theological Library (3rd floor), 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Recent Scholarship on the the Jewish Catacombs of Rome"
Fri & Sat, Oct 17-19: Conference: "Myth Criticism in the Ancient World"
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Main Street, Durham, NH and Portsmouth, NH, United States
John C. Rouman Symposium for Research in the Classics
Hilton Garden Inn Portsmouth (Oct. 17 and 19), University of New Hampshire, Piscataqua Room in Holloway Commons (Oct. 18)
Fri, Oct 17: Michael Dietler (University of Chicago)
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 313, Boston, MA 02215
"Colonial Encounters in Ancient Mediterranean France: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence”
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the BU
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Sat, Oct 18: "Sappho: New Voices"
10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
BARD COLLEGE, Olin Hall 204, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
A symposium on ancient Greek poetry and society in light of this year’s discovery of new poems by Sappho, presented by the Bard College Classical Studies Program and sponsored by James H. Ottaway Jr.
10 a.m. Introduction: Lauren Curtis (Bard College) and Robert Cioffi (Bard College)
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Session 1: Gender and Performance
Timothy Power (Rutgers University): "Performance Scenarios for the New Poems of Sappho"
Melissa Mueller (University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Recentering Epic Nostos: Gender and Genre in the Brothers Poem"
12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch break
1:30-3 p.m. SESSION 2: Sappho and Society
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University): "A High-class Trader, Courtesan, and Poetess, a Tyrant, and Archaic Greek-Eastern Interaction"
Deborah Boedeker (Brown University): "Hera and Now"
3-3:30 p.m. Coffee break
3:30-5 p.m. SESSION 3: Religious Poetics
Timothy Barnes (Princeton University): "Sappho's daimon: a Reading of the Fourth Stanza"
Albert Henrichs (Harvard University): “What’s in a Prayer? Sappho’s Way with Words"
5-5:30 p.m. Round table discussion
6 p.m. Evening performance in Olin Auditorium.
“Bracko”: a reading of Sappho by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Nick Flynn, and Sam Anderson
Wed, Oct 22: **Jonathan Conant (Brown University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Late antique Roman territoriality
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop: "Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
**Thu, Oct 23: Alessandro Barchiesi (Stanford University)
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave) Boston, MA 02215
“The War for Italian in Vergil’s Aeneid”
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
Fri, Oct 24: Alessandro Barchiesi (University of Siena at Arezzo, Stanford University)
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Apuleius the Provincial"
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
Tue, Oct 28: Charles de Lamberterie (Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, École Practique des Hautes Études)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Loeb Lecture
Thu, Oct 30: New England Ancient History Colloquium
5 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
WHEATON COLLEGE, Norton, MA, 02766
5:30 - 6:00 p.m.: Registration and cocktails.
6:00 - 9:00/9:30 p.m. Dinner and Discussion of the Gary Reger's (Trinity College) paper, "First there Is a Mountain," on the religious and historical significance of Mt. Latmos in Asia Minor from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire.
Tue, Nov 4: David Ferry (Wellesley College)
5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MIT Building E51, Room 275, Cambridge, MA 02139
"David Ferry in Conversation: On the Classics & Translation"
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
David is a poet and translator of Classical literatures, winner of the prestigious Lilly Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Foundation, and Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College. David will be reading from new and old translations of Latin authors, as well as from his own work.
**Wed, Nov 5: Alexandre Monteiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 685 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 211, Boston, MA 02215
"Ship of gold in a sea of diamonds: the untold story of the 'Bom Jesus,' a Portuguese East Indiaman lost off Namibia in 1533"
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the BU Archaeology Department
Wed, Nov 5: Hendrik Dey (Hunter College)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, G03, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
"Fortress Rome: How the Aurelian Wall Changed Everything"
In 271 AD, Rome was the largest and most famous city in the world, the center of an empire so vast and so powerful that no foreign invader had threatened it since Hannibal 500 years earlier. Beginning in 271, however, Emperor Aurelius began to surround the previously unfortified city-center with the largest masonry structure the world had ever seen, a city wall 12 miles in circumference imposed on the midst of Rome’s sprawling urban fabric. Neighborhoods were cut in two; roads and bridges blocked; houses, tombs and public buildings either demolished or absorbed by the wall. Professor Dey explores a tiny sampling of the ways in which the look and the life of the city changed forever, with emphasis on infrastructure.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classical Studies, Fine Arts, and History, and the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Thu, Nov 6: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Chewing: Goethe’s Proserpina"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
Fri, Nov 7: Eckart Goebel (New York University)
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 359, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Roundtable Discussion with Professor Frauke Berndt
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
Sat, Nov 8: Colloquium: "Classical Monsters and Their Medieval Afterlife"
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, Campus Center, Amherst Room, Amherst, MA 01003
A colloquium on monsters, their meanings, and their influence in classical and medieval art, archaeology, and literature. Presented by the UMass Amherst Department of Classics. List of speakers and topics available at
http://www.umass.edu/classics/monstersconference.html.
Wed, Nov 12: John Schafer (Northwestern University)
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, Hogan Campus Center, Room 519, Worcester, MA 01610
"The Pagination of Virgil's Poems"
Wed, Nov 12: Jane Chaplin (Middlebury College)
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 301 Herter Hall, Amherst, MA 01003
"Chronological Disorder in LIvy"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, UMass Amherst. Free and open to the public.
Fri & Sat, Nov 14-15: International Society For Late Antique Literary Studies, Annual Conference
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union Terrace Lounge (775 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, 2nd Floor), Boston, MA 02215
Check-in, Friday 8:30 a.m.
Mon, Nov 17: Adrienne Mayor (Stanford University)
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
The author will read and sign copies of her new book "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World."
Mon, Nov 24: Sebastian Sommer (Bayerisches Landesamt, Munich)
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Roman 'limes' and World Heritage Site designation
Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop: "Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"
Faculty Directors: Paul Kosmin & Adrian Staehli
Mon, Dec 8: Athina Papachrysostomou (University of Patras)
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, School of Theology room 409 (745 Commonwealth Ave) Boston, MA 02215
"Comic Money: The Case of Hetairai and Fishmongers"
Free and open to the public
The Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World Series.
Mon, Jan 26: Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham)
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Obesity, Corpulence, and Emaciation in Roman Art"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome
Thu & Fri, Mar 12-13. CON-IH 15—Transitions: States and Empires in
the Longue Durée
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference
on International History (Con-IH) has become an annual event,
organized by graduate students in International History at Harvard
for more information, and please email any enquiries to the organizing
Mon, Mar 23: Mildenberg Lecture 2015: Stefan Ritter (Institute of
Classical Archaeology, LMU Munich)
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBA
The Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title: TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Mon, Apr 13: Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kenneth Lapatin (Getty Museum)
The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
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calclass@fas.harvard.edu. PLEASE send event information in the format modeled above. Calendar entries that require significant editing may not be included. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry, ** = alteration or addition to a former entry